Subject: RE: Texas TriathlonOh Laurie you MUST! It would be so cool to meet you.  Yay. Can we share your jockstrap? Is this Derek as in Willy Wonka Derek, or somebody else? In that case I might just need to get him to sign my helmet or something too.
The "Devil's Backbone" is a big hill in the middle of the bike leg. I saw a hills profile somewhere a while ago but can't seem to find it now. The way I remember the chart, it looked something like this: small rollers, medium rollers, more rollers, slow steady ascent slow steady ascent ascent ascent ascent forever-and-ever-amen, screaming downhill downhill downhill downhill, rollers, roller, rollers. And there were also some hills on the run.
But I've never ridden it, so I could have that all wrong. Yeah, I'm terrified. I had just mastered rolling hills on my hybrid when I switched to a road bike a couple of weeks ago -- faster, right? No, suddenly I don't know how to ride a bike. Different geometry, muscles. No power. Weak. Slow.
Everyone promises that with more saddle time, I'll get used to it, and the strength I was building on my hybrid will somehow be relevant again one day. I've got 3 more weekends to figure that out.
SO, are you registered??? I just signed up this week.
Edited by CitySky 2006-03-01 9:55 PM
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